One of the problems with low-desity, tiny house model, is that it does not fit with high desity needed for effective mass transportation and civil life. In the Pattern Language books it takes about urban housing being no more than 4-6 stories, so as not to lose "connection" to the street. This development in England by Bill Dunster Architects feature; thermally massive materials that store heat, uses natural, recycled or reclaimed materials, hot water comes from the from a small-scale combined heat and power plant (CHP), and has good links to mass transit and uses car pooling to minimize automobile use by its residents.
The design is to a very high standard and is used to enhance the environmental dimensions, with strong emphasis on roof gardens, sunlight, solar energy, reduction of energy consumption and waste water recycling.
BedZED provides 82 residential homes with a mixture of tenures, 34 for outright sale, 23 for shared ownership, 10 for key workers and 15 at affordable rent for social housing - with a further 14 galleried apartments for outright sale.
The homes are a mixture of sizes and the project also includes buildings for commercial use, an exhibition centre, a children's nursery and a show flat so that visitors may see what it is like to live at BedZED.
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